Quotes About Philosophy

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

All would live long but none would be old.

To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

We see how everything—the whole world—is belittled by the idea that all creation is moving or ought to move toward an end that some body, some human body, has thought up.

That grief should come and bring joy with it was not something I felt able, or even called upon, to sort out or understand. I accepted the grief. I accepted the joy. I accepted that they came to me out of the same world.

We cannot think about the future, of course, for the future does not exist: the existence of the future is an article of faith.

The English philosopher and geometer, Keith Critchlow, brings his own light to the same point: "The human mind takes apart with its analytic habits of reasoning but the human heart puts things together because it loves them . . ."18

It is a question with me still, and the answer has altogether disappeared from the world.

A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones.